Consulting Analyst (Behavioural Science)

 

Business area: Consulting (Behavioural Science)

Team: Ogilvy Consulting

Location: London, Sea Containers House, with flexible working policy

Contract type: Fixed Term Contract 

 

Ogilvy’s Vision

Our vision is to inspire brands and people to impact the world – to create big ideas that make significant contributions to the planet, society, and to our clients’ bottom lines. We believe that, in today’s world, this is the best way for our clients to achieve sustainable growth. We achieve this by breaking down the barriers that restrict talent and ideas, and we call this Borderless Creativity.        

Which is why our teams work fluidly across five capabilities: Advertising, Consulting, Experience, PR and Influence, and Health.   This allows us not only to operate but to innovate at the intersection of capabilities and talent.  We believe impact and magic lies at this intersection.   Ogilvy scales this by seamlessly connecting and accessing the deep cultural expertise of 132 offices in 83 countries.   

 

Our vision: We inspire brands and people to impact the world

What we do: We innovate and operate at the intersection of people and capabilities

How we do it: Borderless creativity

 

About this role:

Ogilvy Consulting is the strategy, innovation, and business growth arm of The Ogilvy Group. An enterprise-wide offer, we provide advisory services across Business Transformation, Marketing Transformation and Brand Transformation. We are a global network and bring agile and diverse teams of analysts, strategists, and consultants together at the intersection of brand, growth, innovation, and transformation. We also work closely with teams and businesses across Ogilvy including Advertising, Public Relations & Influence, Experience, and Health.

Within our Behavioural Science specialism, we research and apply the latest thinking in cognitive psychology, social psychology and behavioural economics – bringing together behavioural science and creativity to solve some of the world's most interesting and important challenges with the world's most influential organisations. We believe in the power of thinking counterintuitively, daring to be trivial, that the opposite of a good idea can be another good idea, and the many gospels preached by the founder of our Behavioural Science practice Rory Sutherland.

Whether tasked with improving the security of Europe's busiest airports, changing how people interact with the most popular social media or leading sustainability projects across the globe, we create effective interventions, communications and experiences for private, public and third sector clients.  

We work across all sectors and categories including healthcare, technology, financial services, manufacturing, automotive, retail. Our clients include Great British Rail, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Odeon, Lloyds Banking Group, Sainsburys, Jaguar Land Rover and many more. You can read more about our work in our Annual publications: https://linktr.ee/ogilvybesci

As the curators of the world’s largest festival of behavioural science and creativity, now in its 13^th year, we are at the forefront of the ever-evolving landscape of Behavioural Science in the industry: https://nudgestock.com/

 

 

A bit about you:

It’s an exciting time to be joining Ogilvy Consulting. We’re growing and we’re hiring Consulting Analysts.

Our Consulting Analysts have one-to-three years of experience in consulting or client-side strategy roles and have earned relevant degrees. They bring unique blends of creative thinking, strategic depth, and analytical skills, but most of all, they have decided that while consulting is the path they want to pursue, they want to do it in a place that brings business and brand strategy together with creativity and executability.

As a Consulting Analyst with a Behavioural Science specialism, you will have a detailed knowledge of, and passion for, behavioural science. You will have strong credentials (academic and/or work experience) in cognitive psychology, social psychology and/or the behavioural sciences, combined with the proven ability to practically apply this knowledge to find innovative ways of solving problems.

Our Behavioural Science specialism will have strong exposure across all of Consulting’s key areas from Business Transformation, Brand Transformation, to Marketing Transformation – as well as all of the behavioural science led projects.

Ogilvy Consulting is different from other consultancies. We are nestled in the heart of a world-leading creative agency and differentiate ourselves from traditional consultancies partly by bridging strategy and execution. We’re also organised differently, with a flat hierarchy designed to provide opportunities for big contributions by team members of all levels.

 

As a successful Consulting Analyst (Behavioural Science), you:

• Will have a detailed and fluent knowledge of behavioural science and key concepts and theories.
• Will be capable of interpreting research from a range of quantitative and qualitative sources and techniques (academic literature, ethnographic and complex data sets).
• Will be a confident and engaging presenter capable of translating academic insights into a broader business context.
• Will be capable of establishing sound client relationships and critically challenging if required.
• Will be a champion of creative ideas and creative approaches to research.

 

Responsibilities:

Research & insight development:

• Performing desktop research, developing academic literature reviews and analysing industry and competitor trends
• Conducting competitor analyses that drive unique insights
• Designing, conducting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative research (e.g. interviews, surveys, ethnographies, focus groups)

 

Project delivery:

• Taking ownership of client deliverables and presentations with a strong visual clarity and strategic rigor
• Developing and participating in client strategy and ideation workshops
• Support in the development of business strategies and solutions
• Inputting into the creative development of ideas as well as creative and production briefs
• Supporting with all aspects of project management
• Maintaining the Ogilvy Consulting standard of excellence in intelligence and imagination
  
  

Business Development:

• Participating in growth conversations with existing and prospective clients
• Supporting with new business proposals and pitches
• Contributing to thought leadership and events (e.g. The Annual and Nudgestock)

 

Experience:

• An undergraduate degree is a minimum requirement and a Masters or beyond is certainly beneficial. Subjects may include (but are not limited to) psychology, biology, humanities/social sciences and economics. We’re most concerned with how you’ve used and applied what you’ve studied, rather than the specific discipline itself.
• 1-3 years of experience in a consultancy, client strategy position or equivalent strategic role in professional services.
  
  

Skills and Attributes:

• A detailed knowledge of behaviour change principles, heuristics and biases and fundamentals of psychology and behavioural economics.
• Qualitative and quantitative research skills (including literature reviews, survey development, statistical analysis, etc..)
• Able to draw critical human and cultural insights from data and observation
• Strong business acumen and critical thinking skills
• Exemplary interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to take initiative and to work independently and within a team
• Excellent organization and time management skills with the ability to multi-task, especially in high-pressure situations
• Strong work ethic with superior attention to detail
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly in Excel and PowerPoint, Keynote a plus

 

If this sounds like the right role for you, we’d love to hear from you.